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Hey guys,
I needed a new passenger side head light for my gen 4 Taurus because mine had a leak in the molding. It was always getting filled up with water and eventually it started turning yellow. Bleh! Couldn't have that...
So we bought a new headlight and installed it.
The old one we decided we were going to mess around with. We stuck it in the oven for about 30 seconds to heat up the glue. Each time we would peel it apart a little and stick it back in because it would cool so fast. After about 30 minutes we finally got the assembly apart.
We decided to see about making "clear corners." It is SO easy to pop the "orange" reflector out. It just has to clips and it pops out. It would be VERY easy to paint this silver or get the silver reflective tape and cover it.
It would probably only take about an hour to complete both head lights. I didn't do it on my "new" headlights. I just wanted to see if it could be done....and it can. So anyone looking to do it, with a little careful work and some time, it is most DEFINITLY feasable.
I have no pics of this, so don't ask. I already threw the other headlight away.
-Kyle
I needed a new passenger side head light for my gen 4 Taurus because mine had a leak in the molding. It was always getting filled up with water and eventually it started turning yellow. Bleh! Couldn't have that...
So we bought a new headlight and installed it.
The old one we decided we were going to mess around with. We stuck it in the oven for about 30 seconds to heat up the glue. Each time we would peel it apart a little and stick it back in because it would cool so fast. After about 30 minutes we finally got the assembly apart.
We decided to see about making "clear corners." It is SO easy to pop the "orange" reflector out. It just has to clips and it pops out. It would be VERY easy to paint this silver or get the silver reflective tape and cover it.
It would probably only take about an hour to complete both head lights. I didn't do it on my "new" headlights. I just wanted to see if it could be done....and it can. So anyone looking to do it, with a little careful work and some time, it is most DEFINITLY feasable.
I have no pics of this, so don't ask. I already threw the other headlight away.

-Kyle